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Starlink Allows UK Customers to Rent Satellite Broadband Kit

7th March, 2023 (0 Comments)

SpaceX’s Starlink ISP, which uses thousands of compact satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to deliver low latency ultrafast broadband speeds to homes, has launched a new option for UK customers that enables you to avoid paying one big setup fee for the hardware (dish, router etc.) via an additional monthly rental.

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CMA Clear Merger of Satellite Broadband Firms Viasat and Inmarsat UPDATE

1st March, 2023 (2 Comments)

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has today provisionally approved the merger of two major global satellite communication and broadband operators – Viasat (USA) and Inmarsat (UK), which they previously warned could have resulted in airlines facing “higher prices for on-board wifi” due to the loss of a key competitor.

Starlink V2 Mini Satellites in SpaceX Packed Form

SpaceX Set to Launch First V2 Mini Starlink Broadband Satellites

27th February, 2023 (14 Comments)

Elon Musk’s SpaceX will today attempt to launch the first batch of its second generation “V2 Mini” (Bus F9-2) ultrafast broadband satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which add a bunch of new features that should help to improve the service for both consumers and businesses alike.

Ookla Q4 2022 Study Sees Rise in UK Starlink Broadband Speeds

22nd February, 2023 (3 Comments)

Ookla, which runs the popular Speedtest.net service, has published their latest Q4 2022 report into the internet download, upload and latency performance for UK customers – and other countries – on SpaceX’s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based Starlink ultrafast broadband satellites. The good news is that speeds seems to be rising again.

Starlink Tests New Global Roaming Broadband Service

22nd February, 2023 (1 Comment)

SpaceX’s Starlink service, which uses a mega constellation of compact satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to deliver ultrafast broadband speeds, has invited an unknown number of customers to trial a new “Global Roaming” service for the hefty price of $200 per month (c.£165) – plus $599 for the hardware.

EE Expand 5G Mobile to 500 Smaller UK Rural Towns and Villages

9th February, 2023 (34 Comments)

Consumer broadband ISP and mobile operator EE (BT) has today announced that their ultrafast 5G based (mobile broadband) network is expanding into more rural parts of the UK, reaching national parks, seasonal hotspots and over 500 smaller towns and villages. They’re also testing new technologies, such as mobile via LEO satellites.

Starlink Testing Next Gen LEO Satellite Broadband Dishes

3rd February, 2023 (8 Comments)

SpaceX’s popular Starlink service, which harnesses a mega constellation of compact satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to deliver low latency ultrafast broadband speeds to homes, has been given approval to test up to 200 models of its “next-generation phased array antennas” (i.e. the dish that goes on your home) to improve connectivity.

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Starlink’s LEO Satellite Broadband Gets Energy Saving Sleep Mode

29th January, 2023 (4 Comments)

Customers of SpaceX’s popular Starlink ultrafast broadband service, which harnesses a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and is already home to 1 million subscribers, may like to know that it’s slowly adding a new ‘Sleep Schedule‘ feature to help save electricity.

Global Broadband Lines Top 1.34bn as UK Full Fibre Take-up Slows

16th January, 2023 (6 Comments)

New research from Point Topic has revealed that world fixed broadband lines grew by 1.87% (24.59 million) in Q3 2022 to end the quarter on a total of 1.34 billion connections. But the subscriber growth rate of “full fibre” (FTTP/B) networks in the UK appears to have slowed in recent quarters.

British Satellite Broadband Firm OneWeb Shut Alaska Site Over Cost and Technical Woes

9th January, 2023 (1 Comment)

British registered satellite operator OneWeb, which is partly owned by the UK Government, has closed one of its first – and most heavily promoted – test sites in Alaska after the Alaska Telecom Association (ATA) and local providers complained that the service was “too costly to adopt” and was “discontinued due to ongoing technical difficulties.”

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Iridium and Qualcomm Prep Satellite Mobile for Android Phones

6th January, 2023 (4 Comments)

Satellite operator Iridium and chipmaker Qualcomm have joined forces to add satellite-based “messaging and emergency services” access to premium Android powered Smartphones in the second half of 2023, which will enable them to compete with rival solutions like the Apple iPhone’s new Emergency SOS via Satellite (here).

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SpaceX Launch First Starlink v2 LEO Ultrafast Broadband Satellites

29th December, 2022 (2 Comments)

SpaceX has launched its first somewhat experimental batch of 54 second generation (GEN2) Starlink Block v2.0 satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which may include a number of improvements to hopefully boost broadband speeds (capacity), coverage, network reliability and deliver mobile phone services from space.

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Starlink’s LEO Satellite Broadband Network Hits 1 Million Subscribers

20th December, 2022 (2 Comments)

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has announced that Starlink’s global mega constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based ultrafast broadband ISP satellites has managed to grow its customer base to over 1 million, which is double the 500,000 they reported just six months ago in June 2022.

Apple Emergency SOS via Satellite on iPhone 14

Apple Enables Emergency SOS via Satellite in UK on iPhone 14

13th December, 2022 (11 Comments)

Apple has announced that their new Emergency SOS via Satellite feature, which enables users to message (SMS) with emergency services while roaming outside of regular cellular (mobile) and Wi-Fi coverage, has finally launched across all iPhone 14 models in the United Kingdom, as well as France, Germany and Ireland.

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Starlink Details Data Speed of its Space-based 4G Mobile Network

9th December, 2022 (7 Comments)

A few months ago Starlink (SpaceX) announced (here) that it had teamed-up with T-Mobile to launch a new global space-based 4G and 5G mobile network, which would be supported by the former company’s mega-constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based broadband satellites. More details on the network have now been revealed.

OneWeb and SpaceX Successfully Launch 40 LEO Broadband Satellites

9th December, 2022 (0 Comments)

British satellite operator OneWeb, which is partly owned by the UK Government, has – for the first time – successfully launched 40 of their compact Low Earth Orbit (LEO) based ultrafast broadband satellites aboard a Falcon9 rocket from SpaceX at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida (USA).

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OneWeb Set First SpaceX Broadband Satellite Launch for 6th Dec 2022

2nd December, 2022 (0 Comments)

British-registered space company OneWeb has today confirmed that its first use of SpaceX’s Falcon9 rocket will take place “no earlier than” Tuesday 6th December 2022, which will send 40 of their ultrafast low-latency broadband satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO).